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Roland Wallace Burris (born August 3, 1937) is an American retired Democratic politician and attorney who served as Attorney General of Illinois from 1991 to 1995. In January 2009, he was appointed a United States Senator, succeeding Barack Obama, who resigned to become president of the United States.
May 1, 2024 · Roland Burris is an American Democratic politician who was the first African American elected to statewide office in Illinois. His appointment as U.S. senator (2009–10) to fill the seat vacated by Pres. Barack Obama made him the fourth African American to serve in the Senate since Reconstruction.
Dec 31, 2008 · CHICAGO — In Illinois, where politics ranks among the dramatic arts (sometimes the theater of the absurd), Roland W. Burris has long been seen as steady, deliberate, even boring.
Apr 24, 2000 · Burris began his career in 1963 as a national bank examiner for the U.S. Treasury Department. This gave him the honor of being the first African American to examine banks in the United States.
Dec 30, 2008 · Who is Roland Burris? Within weeks of Obama's election, Burris announced his interest in the president-elect's Senate seat. By Ryan Grim. 12/30/2008 04:30 PM EST.
Jan 18, 2009 · On January 15, 2009 Roland Wallace Burris was sworn in as the U.S. Senator from Illinois. Burris’s appointment made him the third African American U.S. Senator from the state and the sixth black U.S. Senator in the history of the United States.
Oct 23, 2010 · WASHINGTON — A new Howard University law grad in 1963, Roland Burris packed up the car for Chicago and told his wife that the capital had “too much government.” He pledged to come back only for a...
